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Happy Birthday Minecraft Style!

Today I'd like to share with you a Birthday Card a friend of mine commissioned me to make for her Grandson's birthday. Wee Tommy is turning 11, loves Minecraft and his cat Tigger, so here's what I came up with;

I used the wonderful 'Game, No Poster (revised)' image from Saturated Canary for this, along with Bo the cat from 'Becca and Bo' a retired Saturated Canary image. I coloured my images to look like Tommy and Tigger, and gave Tommy a minecraft inspired outfit.

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Fantastic work Suzi! Absolutely loving the originality and unique style of all your work!! :-) We've proudly showcased your creation on our Social Networks and linked back to this blog... Looking forward to many more amazing creations from you and thank you for being a Foxy Expressions customer!

To embellish my canvas I used some brand new MDF Stars from Samantha K Gifts, which are available from Hochanda.com from today, but you'll have to be quick, as the last collection sold out really quick. You can see Sam on Hochanda TV today at 8am and 3pm featuring these Stars and lots more gorgeous new shapes.

I painted the Stars with pale blue acrylic paint, iridescent medium and then added a little alchemy wax in turquoise and silver. Look at that shine. So beautiful.#

The background is a piece of canvas I did some Gelli Printing on the other day. I cut out a large circle from one of my plain gel prints and added half to the left side of the canvas and another piece to the bottom right corner. I applied it with matte medium, and got impatient so dried it with my heat gun, which made it bubble. Not a happy mess! So I ripped off the bubble sections and used a sanding block to even out the surface a little. Luckily that looked better, so I added my …